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Occult  Experiences 


By  R.  BUREN 


PRICE    -    -    -    -    25  CENTS 


Occult  Experiences 


A  True  Narrative  of  Experiences 

in   the    Present  Time   and 

Deductions  Therefrom 


By 

R.  BUREN 


PRICE     :    .:     :     .  25  CENTS 


HOLMES    BOOK   COMPANY 
707    MARKET    STREET 

SAN  FRANCISCO,  CAL. 


Copyrighted  1919 
By  R.  BUREN 


CHASE    &    RAE 


CONTENTS 

Page 

CHAPTER  I. 
THE  ORIGIN  OP  LIFE       ...  9 

CHAPTER  IT. 
PHILOSOPHY 14 

CHAPTER  III. 
CHRISTIANITY 19 

CHAPTER  IV. 
SPIRITUAL  HEALING 22 

CHAPTER  V. 
CHRISTIAN    MYSTERIES  -         29 

CHAPTER  VI. 
OUTSIDE  THE  BODY 34 

CHAPTER  VII. 
REVELATION 38 

CHAPTER  VIII. 
THOUGHT    TRANSFERENCE   -         -  45 

CHAPTER  IX. 
NOT   SPIRITUALISM  -         51 

CHAPTER  X. 
CHRISTIAN  BROTHERHOOD  54 


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To  those  persons  who  have 
witnessed  or  had  part  in  the 
phenomena  herein  related, 
these  pages  are  dedicated. 


OCCULT    S 


Preface 

When  I  started  to  write  these  pages  they  were 
intended  as  a  memorandum  for  myself  only,  but 
later  decided  that  others  would  find  interest,  in- 
spiration and  instruction  from  them.  No  claim  is 
made  for  high  literary  ability. 

There  is  at  the  present  time  in  the  minds  of 
men  an  unsatisfied  inward  longing  for  spiritual 
light.  It  is  hoped  that  a  cup  of  water  is  here  of- 
fered for  this  thirst. 

This  is  the  narrative  of  some  psychic  experiences, 
the  thoughts  deducted  from  them  with  the  hope  that 
it  will  lead  some  earnest  readers  to  the  better 
knowledge  of  self;  stimulate  to  further  inquiry  to 
see  our  relation  to  God  and  human  society.  Life 
itself  is  educational.  Individuals  possess  instincts 
which,  if  followed,  lead  to  self  expression  and  ser- 
vice to  humanity.  Self  knowledge  and  self  mastery 
are  more  important  than  any  other  knowledge.  No 
genius  has  ever  yet  had  success  in  explaining  exist- 
ence. (Emerson.) 

No  science,  no  matter  how  high-sounding  or  pre- 
tentious, is  able  to  solve  or  explain  the  first  cause, 
so  we  confess  our  ignorance  and  call  it  God.  The 
best  we  can  do  in  this  life  is  the  pursuit  of  truth, 
virtue,  beauty  and  the  service  to  our  fellow  man. 

Forward   is  the   ultimate   word,   every   summit   is 


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sure  to  reveal  a  new  light  and  enticing  landscape 
beyond.  For  no  man  knows  all  of  God's  laws  of 
the  universe.  Truth  is  unchangeable,  but  as  we 
learn  some  phase  of  truth  we  did  not  know  before, 
it  appears  as  something  new.  The  great  lesson  of 
life  is  harmonious  adjustment. 


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CHAPTER  I. 
Origin    of    Life. 

The  universe  is  a  manifestation  of  spirit.  The 
universe  is  forever  changing,  but  spirit  remains  the 
same.  The  creative  life  of  spirit  is  the  involution 
which  precedes  all  evolution,  and  is  the  life  moving 
principle — God,  Love,  wisdom,  power.  Spirit  is  God 
in  action — Life.  You  ask,  why  is  the  creation?  I 
answer,  Because  life  is  the  nature  of  spirit. 

This  is  the  old  truth.  After  worldly  wise  scien- 
tists have  long  obscured  and  even  denied  it,  some 
modern  scientists  are  now  returning  to  it. 

Edgar  Lucian  Larkin,  a  well-known  scientist  and 
astronomer  of  the  present  time,  when  asked  what 
science  knows  about  the  origin  of  life,  answered 
as  follows: 

"The  scientific  world  is  not  in  possession  of  even 
one  fact  as  to  the  origin  of  life  nor  of  the  origin 
of  anything  whatever." 

Then  science  does  not  know  the  origin  of  animals 
nor  man.  All  animals  now  start  from  very  minute 
bodies  called  cells.  Each  kind  of  animal  has  its 
own  fixed  kind  of  cell.  One  kind  of  cell  never 
changes  into  another,  but  the  origin  of  each  kind  of 
cell  is  totally  unknown. 


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He  also  published  often  positive  assertions  that 
electrons  were  created  by  mind,  and  since  nothing 
exists  but  electrons,  all  matter  in  its  billions  of  ob- 
jective shapes  and  forms  was  thus  made  into  these 
forms  by  the  action  of  mind  or  spirit.  All  material 
bodies  are,  therefore,  an  aggregation  or  collection 
of  electrons  and  are  appearances  existing  only  in 
mind  and  through  mind. 

An  atom  of  dust  that  can  be  observed  floating  in 
air  space  is  composed  of  more  than  three  thou- 
sand electrons,  so  that  single  electrons  are  entirely 
invisible  to  the  naked  physical  eyes  and  only  in 
great  aggregations  are  they  seen  as  forms.  So  even 
matter  in  its  finer  divisions  is  invisible  and  imper- 
ceptible to  the  physical  body. 

All  things  spiritual  are  so  much  finer  that  they 
can  only  be  perceived  by  the  spiritual  and  never  by 
the  physical.  But  as  our  real  life  is  spiritual  it 
may,  under  proper  conditions,  through  the  nervous 
system  and  brain,  make  our  consciousness  aware  of 
those  vibrations. 

That  the  life  principle  in  man  is  spiritual  and  is 
an  emanation  from  divinity  is  proved  by  that  inner 
impulse  which  exists  in  humanity,  and  which  is 
ever  pushing  the  race  onward. 

Deep  within  the  heart  of  all,  though  veiled  by 
transitory  condition  often  submerged  under  other 
interests  and  anxieties,  there  exists  a  continual 
seeking  after  God.  As  a  deer  panteth  after  water- 
brooks,  so  longeth  humanity  after  God.  It  may  be 
checked  for  a  space  and  the  yearning  seem  to  dis- 


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appear,  but  its  phases  recur  in  thought  and  civil- 
ization, seeking  the  divine,  its  source,  as  water 
seeks  its  level. 

The  human  spirit  is  yearning  for  that  which  is 
akin  to  it  in  the  universe;  an  attraction  of  the  part 
to  the  whole  may  seem  to  have  vanished,  none  the 
less  it  will  yearn  again.  Apparently  destroyed, 
though  the  tendency  may  be,  it  rises  again  with 
inextinguishable  persistence. 

Scientists  have  found  that  an  electron,  under  a 
powerful  magnifying  instrument,  still  consists  of 
parts  in  motion,  revolving  around  one  another,  al- 
though the  parts  cannot  be  separated. 

On  the  other  or  larger  side  we  perceive  this  earth 
and  the  other  planets  revolving  around  our  sun  at 
certain  regulated  speed  and  distance,  forming  a  unit 
called  a  solar  system. 

Astronomers  have  photographed  something  like 
one  hundred  million  suns,  which  undoubtedly  have 
also  planets  revolving  around  them.  These  suns 
also  must  have  a  common  centre,  around  or  toward 
which  they  travel  in  space. 

This  is  an  illustration  of  the  axiom.  How  great 
is  God!  How  small  am  I!  Thus  it  proves  itself 
to  be  an  inherent  tendency  in  human  nature — an 
ineradiable  constituent  thereof.  Those  who  say  it 
is  dead  find  it  facing  them  again  with  undiminished 
vitality.  Those  who  hold  it  to  be  outgrown,  find 
the  wildest  superstitions  succeed  its  denial.  The 
God  Idea  is  an  integral  part  of  humanity. 

God  is  the  only  self-existent  power  and  unchange- 


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able  wisdom,  who  has  made  a  plan  for  the  universe 
that  goes  beyond  the  understanding  of  his  creatures. 
His  purpose  goes  on  unfolding  and  being  enacted 
through  all  time.  His  plans  embrace  a  great  deal 
to  be  done  through  his  creatures,  and  they  are, 
therefore,  necessary  for  its  accomplishment. 
Science  has  shown  that  all  the  different  kinds  of 
force  are  but  different  forms  of  one  omnipresent 
energy,  and  this  omnipresent  energy  can  be  no 
other  than  the  Creator  of  all  living  things.  Even 
to  the  materialist  who  is  continually  trying  to 
smother  the  God  Idea  stirring  in  him,  it  must  ap- 
pear more  reasonable  to  believe  in  and  accept  a  self- 
existant  intelligence,  wisdom  and  power  to  rule  and 
keep  in  order  the  universe  with  its  millions  of 
suns  and  planets  than  it  is  to  imagine  that  these 
bodies,  who  have  of  themselves  no  intelligence, 
could  circulate  and  keep  themselves  in  order  like 
the  finest  and  most  intricate  mechanism  of  their 
own  accord. 

Natural  Laws  are  the  regulations  which  the  cre- 
ator has  implanted  in  his  creations,  like  the  qual- 
ities of  a  machine  are  implanted  in  it  by  the 
mechanic  who  constructed  it. 

Science  has  not  one  single  fact  as  to  the  origin 
of  life,  unless  they  admit  it  to  be  in  this  spiritual 
invisible  wisdom  and  power.  The  creatures  are 
self  evidently  too  small  and  limited  to  know  or 
comprehend  the  limitless  or  its  origin. 

It  is  an  accepted  truth  by  old  Egyptians  and 
Hindu  philosophy,  as  well  as  by  pure  Christian 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  13 

thought,  that  the  creator  of  the  universe  is  not  to 
be  compared  to  a  person,  but  is  an  all-compromising 
sea  of  spirit  and  intelligence,  from  which  individ- 
ual life  goes  out  into  myriad  of  forms,  acting 
through  them,  and  that  life  finally,  after  many  vis- 
itations, returns  to  its  original  source. 

It  is  rather  to  be  compared  to  the  ocean  on  this 
earth  from  which  the  water  goes  out  as  vapor  is 
distributed  over  the  earth,  as  rain,  snow  or  dew.  It 
fulfills  many  good  missions.  It  prelocates  through 
the  earth  crust,  comes  out  again  as  springs,  but 
finally  returns  to  the  ocean,  its  source. 

Pure  thought  is  the  starting  point  of  all  exist- 
ence; then  it  assumes  the  form  of  an  idea.  The 
idea  develops  into  form,  which  passes  outward 
into  the  material  world  as  manifestation  on  the 
plane  of  sense.  The  universe  is  the  divine  idea,  or 
what  is  called  the  word,  in  the  gospel  of  St.  John. 
The  world  is  not  in  a  finished  state,  but  is  in  the 
process  of  development;  the  idea  is  stirring  for 
better  outward  expression — that  is  what  we  call 
evolution. 

Every  conception  which  we  form  in  our  mind  of 
the  inner  nature  of  man  and  of  ourself  tends  to 
outward  bodily  expression  by  a  natural  law.  The 
idea  is  the  living  germ — the  seed  of  a  new  state 
having  a  creative  potency. 

Ideas  are  the  sources  of  all  existence  of  material 
entities.  All  creation  is  first  in  idea  and  is  a  gene- 
rating. Ideas  are  conceptions.  They  are  a  union 
of  pure  intellect  with  spiritual  feeling.  This 


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union  is  life  wherever  it  is  effected.  Ideas  are 
the  only  truly  existing  things.  They  are  the 
union  of  thought  and  feeling  on  a  higher  spiritual 
plane,  and  descending  to  the  lower  plane,  they 
are  perceived  as  external  or  material  objects. 

The  external  cosmos  is  an  appearance  of  the 
higher  world  to  the  world  of  sense.  All  things 
first  existed  in  idea.  Genesis  2:4,  5.  These 
are  the  generations  of  the  heavens  and  the  earth 
in  the  day  when  they  were  created,  when  Je- 
hovah— God — made  the  heavens  and  the  earth 
and  every  plant  of  the  field  before  it  was  in  the 
earth,  and  every  herb  before  it  grew.  That  is, 
they  were  created  in  idea  before  they  could  be 
perceived  by  the  senses. 

That  man  has  spiritual  nature  besides  a  phys- 
ical can  be  traced  through  all  the  records  and 
traditions  from  the  ancients,  as  well  as  the  new, 
to  the  present  time.  It  is  truth. 


CHAPTER    II. 
Philosophy. 

All  we  know  is  through  the  mind,  sensation,  per- 
ception and  conception.  All  depends  on  the  fitness 
of  the  mind;  systematic  thought  control  is  the  shap- 
ing of  the  mind.  By  suggestion  and  auto-sugges- 


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tion  we  can  start  to  control  our  thoughts,  and  with 
a  strong  will  and  perseverance  we  can  control  our 
thoughts. 

As  we  direct  our  thought  to  good  and  truth  it 
will  fit  and  actuate  the  mind  for  righteousness  and 
reality.  The  mind  influences  the  body  to  such  an 
extent  that  the  body  reflects  the  state  of  mind. 

Nature  is  cosmic  mind  in  manifestation.  Death 
is  not  cessation  of  life  force,  but  its  withdrawing 
from  that  form.  The  form  only  changes.  Thought 
concentration  on  a  given  subject  has  great  influ- 
ence of  one  mind  over  another,  either  by  audible 
or  silent  suggestion.  Also  by  autosuggestion  one 
may  suggest  to  his  subconscious  mind  the  truth  he 
desires  to  embody.  He  can  suggest  to  himself  that 
physicological  processes  are  normal.  That  nature 
through  the  subconscious  is  doing  her  work  per- 
fectly, aided  from  the  higher  centers,  and  such 
autosuggestion  will  not  be  without  effect. 

He  may  suggest  to  the  intellect  philosophic 
truth  until  it  becomes  dominated  by  true  con- 
cepts. This  will  admit  light  to  our  minds.  Auto- 
suggestion is  the  means  open  to  every  mind  to 
improve  its  own  estate,  to  establish  harmony  within 
itself,  to  perfect  its  conscious  relations  with  God 
and  man  and  nature,  and  to  foster  and  sustain 
normal  conditions  in  its  garment,  the  body. 

Avoid  all  thought  of  inharmony  and  selfishness. 
Suggest  to  yourself  only  that  which  has  basis  in 
truth  and  conduces  to  harmony. 

Everybody's  aim  in  life  is  happiness,  but  the  ma- 


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jority  follow  the  wrong  road,  which  takes  them 
away  from  the  goal.  The  highway  of  selfishness  is 
a  wrong  road.  The  idea  of  acquiring  and  achiev- 
ing at  the  expense  of  others  is  false  and  unprofit- 
able, yet  underlies  the  commercial  and  social  life 
of  today.  Impressed  by  the  world-thought,  the 
money-mad  shove  and  jostle  one  another  on  the 
road  which  leads  to  dispair. 

Another  wrong  road  is  sensuality — the  idea  that 
pleasure  is  happiness.  Pleasure  ends  not  in  hap- 
piness, but  in  disease  and  pain.  Happiness  is  an 
effect  of  which  right-thinking  is  the  cause.  To  be 
in  harmony  in  our  mind  with  the  soul — God  in  us, 
who  is  absolute  Love  and  Truth — and  to  be  in  har- 
mony with  our  fellowmen,  will  give  peace  of  mind 
and  health — that  harmony  is  happiness. 

This  peace  of  mind  and  harmony  is  more  precious 
than  all  else  in  this  world  to  one  who  can  appre- 
hend it.  Where  love  exists  no  law  is  needed  and 
no  orders  are  given,  for  love  is  the  fulfillment  of 
the  law.  Without  love  there  can  be  no  harmony. 
"A  house  whose  occupants  are  discordant  is  not 
a  home."  In  case  of  discord  always  correct  your 
own  faults  before  looking  for  the  faults  of  others. 
Love  and  service  are  normal  to  life.  We  have  no 
true  life  without  them.  This  love  will  result  in 
deeper  spiritual  self-reliance,  a  nearer  approach  to 
God  and  a  more  stable  health. 

All  material  things  are  only  means  for  spirit- 
ual ends  and  aims.  When  we  elevate  material 
things  above  the  spiritual,  they  become  tyrants. 


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Perfect  Love  casteth  out  fear  and  the  Truth  makes 
free.  Man,  born  of  woman,  is  of  few  days  and  full 
of  trouble.  Man,  born  of  spirit,  is  of  Eternity. 
God  is  to  men  what  the  dynamo  is  to  the  little 
individual  light.  We  need  salvation  from  our  ignor- 
ance only. 

When  we  are  born  of  spirit  we  can  find  quiet, 
rest  and  peace  of  mind  in  any  environment  with- 
out giving  predominance  to  worldly  worries  and 
cares  under  any  circumstances. 

Matter,  although  indestructable,  is  continually 
changing  form  through  the  activities  of  spirit  or 
intelligence,  therefore  matter  exists  to  give  expres- 
sion to  spirit  or  intelligence. 

God  is  an  infinite  as  is  time  and  space  and  the 
infinite  is  not  subject  to  definition  by  finite,  but 
we  can  realize  in  consciousness  what  God  is  to  us. 
The  soul  is  of  God  as  the  sunbeam  partakes  of  the 
nature  of  the  sun,  existing  by  virtue  of  to  sun  only. 
So  does  the  individual  soul  partake  of  the  spirit 
and  is  not  susceptible  to  change.  It  is  not  born, 
neither  does  it  die.  Our  changes  are  in  our  mind 
or  in  the  stream  of  consciousness  only.  As  the  sun 
ever  shines,  no  matter  how  many  clouds  pass  over 
the  earth,  so  the  soul  remains  serene,  regardless  of 
troubles  and  changes  of  the  mind. 

Our  destiny  is  to  bring  our  minds  in  harmony 
with  the  soul  and  God  through  evolution.  This  is 
to  be  the  end  of  all  our  aims  in  life.  This  harmony 
is  complete  happiness,  rest  and  infinite  repose  of 
the  soul  in  God.  The  spirit  possesses  and  instructs 


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that  mind  who  divests  himself  of  dogma  and  belief 
and  makes  the  love  of  God  and  neighbor  his  reli- 
gion, and  he  has  life  more  abundant.  Love  is  the 
light  of  the  world.  Love  writes  no  treatises  on 
morals  or  ethics,  but  writes  itself.  It  is  the  one 
thing  that  gives  real  value  to  all  other  resources. 
Wealth  is  but  ashes  without  it.  Society  is  but  a 
mockery. 

Business  success  is  a  failure  without  Love.  A 
loveless  life  is  a  sunless  world.  If  we  strive  to 
appear  rather  than  to  be,  then  must  we  be  content 
with  the  appearance  of  happiness.  But  if  we  are 
loving  and  kind  our  happiness  is  real.  While  the 
world  is  mad  for  possession,  Love  possesses  itself 
and  is  content.  Selfishness  is  a  disease  and  Love 
is  a  cure. 

Atoms  that  we  are,  crawling  on  the  surface  of  a 
little  whirling  ball,  itself  utterly  insignificant  in 
the  universe,  yet  are  we  so  guarded  we  cannot 
escape  the  result  of  a  thought,  but  we  have  the 
freedom  and  power  through  the  will  to  direct  and 
control  the  mind  and  its  thought  force. 

The  balanced  mind  is  that  in  which  the  will  and 
reason  work  in  harmony.  Character  is  organized 
will  and  moral  strength.  I  can't  or  I  will  are 
the  poles  between  which  lay  all  the  zones  of  char- 
acter. Even  the  brain  and  nervous  system  are 
shaped  and  controlled  by  the  perseverance  of  a 
strong  will  in  harmony  with  the  s.oul  and  God. 


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CHAPTER  III. 
Christianity. 

When  man  fell  he  descended  from  the  spirituality 
to  the  material  sensuality.  The  spirit  of  Christ, 
through  example  and  teachings  of  Jesus,  is  to  lift 
him  again  from  material  sense  to  spirit.  The  doc- 
trine of  Jesus  and  the  apostles  is,  that  man  is  a 
spiritual  being.  The  spirit  being  an  expression  and 
emanation  from  the  omnipresent  spirit,  God.  That 
qualities  of  the  spirit  are  love  and  service  and 
health;  that  this  spirit  and  its  qualities  are  im- 
mortal and  eternal. 

The  Christian  doctrine  is  love  and  faith,  for  by 
that  it  is  known  that  we  are  Christians — that  we 
love  one  another  to  apprehend  and  realize  that 
spiritual  truth,  and  finally  be  so  freed  and  purified 
from  material  things  as  to  be  fit  for  a  reunion  with 
the  all-inclusive  spirit,  God.  As  Jesus  was  saying, 
"I  and  my  Father  are  one."  This  is  again  and 
again  repeated  by  Jesus,  and  also  by  Paulus  in 
many  different  ways  as  being  true  Christianity. 

The  soul  of  man  is  the  idea  or  the  living  image 
of  God.  The  soul,  the  real  life,  is  reflected  to  our 
senses  in  the  body.  Jesus  was  an  idealist,  and 
without  a  knowledge  of  the  philosophy  of  idealism 
it  is  impossible  to  comprehend  the  profoundest 
truths  of  Christianity  or  any  of  the  oriental  re- 
ligions. With  the  founders  of  all  these  ideals  exist- 
ing in  a  sphere  of  being  interior  to  the  world  of 


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sense  were  the  only  real  and  enduring  things.  All 
else  is  evanescent  and  forever  changing. 

Reincarnation,  or  the  idea  that  the  soul  of  man 
passes  through  many  earthly  lives  in  different  phys- 
ical bodies  before  he  is  fit  to  remain  in  higher 
worlds,  was  thought  and  believed  in  by  most  of  the 
old  religions.  Also  by  first  Christians;  it  was  con- 
sidered as  belonging  to  the  law  of  evolution — one 
earthly  life  being  regarded  as  a  day  in  school  of  a 
child. 

Surely  many  problems  of  life  can  be  explained 
on  that  basis  that  would  otherwise  be  unsolvable, 
but  to  argue  about  it  is  not  in  the  province  of  this 
volume.  The  man  who  does  not  learn  his  lesson 
the  first  time  has  to  try  over  and  over  again  until 
he  does  learn  it,  and  sooner  or  later  every  human 
being  attains  to  the  goal  appointed  for  him.  There 
is  no  uncertainty,  as  a  going  backward  is  incon- 
sistent with  the  law  of  progress. 

It  is  the  abuses,  the  intolerance  and  antagonistic 
divisions  that  are  practiced  in  the  name  of  Chris- 
tianity, which  have  caused  so  many  good  people  to 
leave  the  church.  Neither  the  conduct  nor  the 
general  teachings  of  those  who  call  themselves 
Christians  now  are  in  harmony  with  the  spirit  of 
the  first  Christians. 

If  the  personally  recorded  life  of  Jesus  is  taken 
as  representative — as  pointing  the  way  to  perfect 
spiritual  attainment — the  doctrine  of  atonement  may 
be  readily  understood,  and  a  cloud  of  misconcep- 
tion removed  from  a  tenet  originally  elevating, 


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which  has  become  so  obscured  by  error  that  it 
resembles  now  a  fine  old  painting  by  a  great  mas- 
ter, disfigured  and  blackened  with  smoke  and 
grime.  This  painting  or  tenet  needs  to  be  cleaned 
and  restored  to  make  visible  its  original  lineament. 

Love  always  was  an  attribute  of  God,  but  it  was 
not  taught  and  understood  until  Jesus,  the  Christ 
manifested  in  the  flesh,  showed,  demonstrated  and 
proved  it  to  human  understanding,  so  that  we 
should  see  this  truth  clearly  and  be  redeemed  from 
our  own  error  and  illusion.  When  we  can  see  this 
divine  love  and  the  stainless  and  loving  example 
of  the  life  of  Jesus  and  can  feel  His  spirit,  we  will 
be  drawn  and  impelled  to  give  love  in  return  to 
our  fellowmen  and  in  gratitude  to  Him  strive  to 
emulate  or  shape  our  lives  in  accordance  with  His 
teachings. 

If  one  in  any  sense  feels  that  he  is  here  and 
now  a  member  of  the  true  universal  church  of  the 
first  born,  whose  names  are  written  in  heaven,  he 
is  called  upon  to  be  as  a  city  on  a  hill  or  as  the 
salt  of  the  earth.  If  one  has  found  himself  and 
received  special  light  from  the  spirit  of  Christ 
and  God,  it  is  his  duty  to  proclaim  and  present  it 
the  best  way  he  can  and  let  the  light  shine  to 
those  who  have  not  yet  found  it — not  to  hide  the 
light  under  a  bushel. 

The  modern  church  has  become  so  absorbed  to 
save  souls  from  the  consequences  of  sin  in  another 
world  as  to  allow  the  first  work  of  bringing  the 
personal  and  social  life  to  perfection  in  this  world 


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to  be  neglected.  The  church  has  almost,  if  not  en- 
tirely, lost  the  true  conception  of  the  nature  of  the 
Holy  Spirit  and  its  gift  and  work  in  man. 

The  blind  teaching  of  a  false  theology  has  in- 
volved the  world  in  bondage  to  the  letter,  by  which 
it  has  failed  to  catch  the  spirit  in  any  large  and 
free  sense.  Only  the  book  and  the  stories  of 
saintly  livers,  and  the  one  exceptional  and  perfect 
life,  have  kept  alive  and  fed  the  spiritual  institu- 
tions and  aspirations  of  mankind. 


CHAPTER   IV. 
Spiritual    Healing. 

From  what  we  have  already  realized  in  personal 
experience,  we  are  fully  persuaded  that  the  law  of 
faith,  as  announced  by  Jesus,  is  the  supreme  law 
of  all  divine  realization  for  man.  The  mission  of 
Jesus  as  the  Christ  was  not  so  much  to  teach  a 
philosophy  as  to  establish  a  method  by  which  all 
might  come  to  a  knowledge  of  the  truth.  Each  for 
himself  by  inward  illumination,  as  the  true  leader 
had  done.  He  spoke  from  the  living  authority  of 
an  inward  revelation.  The  scribe's  appeal  was  to 
the  law  as  written  in  books. 

The  incarnation  of  the  Divine  in  Jesus  reveals 
and  demonstrates  the  inate  capacity  of  our  human- 


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ity  as  the  offspring  of  God  for  receiving  the  spirit 
of  the  Father.  The  work  of  the  Christ  is  not  so 
much  to  save  man  from  the  effects  of  sin  in  a 
world  to  come  as  to  save  them  from  their  sin  here 
and  now  in  this  world.  To  know  oneself  is  not 
to  believe,  but  to  understand  that  one's  real  self 
is  spiritual;  it  is  as  a  Child  of  God,  the  soul.  The 
body  is  a  medium  for  spirit  to  express  itself. 

The  changeable  mind,  or  thought-flow  through  the 
will,  is  to  bring  us  into  harmony  with  the  divine, 
spiritual  life.  Health  is  normal  to  mankind.  Sick- 
ness is  the  result  of  error  in  many  different  ways. 
By  correcting  the  error  and  realizing  and  acting 
the  truth  in  its  place  he  will  get  well. 

That  God's  spirit  is  imminent  in  his  world  has 
long  been  believed  by  the  enlightened,  but  that 
one  could  so  realize  the  presence  of  the  spiritual 
in  the  natural,  so  draw  upon  the  resources  which 
spring  from  the  divine  imminence  as  to  heal  all 
kinds  of  disease  by  consciously  directed  process 
and  reduced  principles  which  all  could  understand 
was  a  proof  of  philosophic  truth  that  was  new  to 
the  world,  of  which  Dr.  Quimby  was  the  pioneer  of 
modern  times.  Jesus  revealed  it  1,800  years  ago, 
and  the  church  enjoyed  it  for  three  hundred  years 
or  more,  then  went  into  the  dark  ages  of  human 
opinion  and  self  conceit. 

There  are  today  metaphysicians  who  have  or 
realize  that  spirit  and  do  its  work,  who  are  not 
members  of  any  church  organization,  neither  of  the 
medical  profession.  God  not  often  chooses  the 


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worldly  wise,  but  the  simple  things  of  the  world 
to  confound  the  wise.  The  spiritual  development 
may  be  stimulated  or  retarded;  it  depends  upon 
the  degree  to  which  one  may  relate  himself  to 
the  spiritual  energy  of  the  divine  atmosphere,  ever 
ready  to  pour  itself  through  every  receptive  chan- 
nel. This  energy  is  the  divine  will,  and  entering 
into  it  man  does  not  lose  his  own  free  choice,  but 
only  enters  into  that  which  makes  his  choice  vital 
and  magnetic  with  power  of  achievement. 

A  concentration  of  thought  toward  the  patient 
will  transfer  itself  to  him.  You  ask  how  does  this 
realization  of  the  divine  ideal  and  of  the  soul's  one- 
ness with  good  reach  the  patient  and  produce  a 
corresponding  state?  The  best  illustration  is  sound 
vibration.  When  two  pianos  are  in  adjoining  rooms, 
if  a  note  is  struck  on  one,  the  corresponding  chord 
in  the  other  will  vibrate.  So  with  human  thought. 
If  there  is  a  corresponding  tendency  in  the  other 
he  will  receive  it  and  understand  it.  If  the  other 
has  no  corresponding  sympathy  and  has  never 
communed  with  the  divine  in  silence,  such  words 
or  thoughts  mean  nothing  to  him. 

I  myself  know  by  experience  that  thought  trans- 
ference is  an  actual  fact,  and  is  far  more  common 
than  is  generally  supposed.  In  the  healing  process, 
when  two  sit  down  close  together,  one  needing 
help  and  receptive  and  expectant  to  receive  it, 
the  other  desirous,  feeling  able  to  help  by  con- 
fidence in  help  of  God  that  is  present,  they  enter 
into  sympathy,  and  as  the  healer's  mind  rises  from 


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the  outer  world  to  a  spiritual  plane  of  divine  com- 
munion, the  other  receives  consciously  or  subcon- 
sciously the  benefit  of  the  realization,  the  result 
will  be  consciously  made  known  in  due  course. 
To  lose  self  that  one  may  find  it  is  the  essence  of 
spiritual  healing,  for  in  illness  or  trouble  there  is 
always  too  great  consciousness  of  self.  The  pe- 
culiar qualities  of  spiritual  experience  cannot  be  im- 
parted in  words  to  those  who  are  not  in  sympathy 
with  it.  When  healer  and  patient  are  in  sympathy 
and  the  healer  realizes  that  God  is  everywhere  and 
is  present  in  this  room,  that  he  is  perfect  harmony 
and  health,  ready  to  help  those  who  are  willing 
to  receive;  that  he  is  permeating  the  patient  and 
causing  him  to  lose  all  fear  and  be  serene  and 
at  peace,  seeing  that  it  is  his  unwisdom  that  causes 
his  trouble  and  that  through  the  God-given  love 
and  wisdom  he  will  overcome  them  and  choose  the 
better  way — this  will  transfer  to  the  patient.  His 
thought  will  result  from  that  realization  to  absorb 
the  consciousness  in  the  thought  of  the  divine  lov- 
ing and  healing  presence  is  the  most  therapeutically 
effective  to  one  who  enters  fully  into  the  spirit  of 
such  reflection,  Gold  alone  seems  to  exist. 

Spiritual  preparation  and  some  experience  in 
oneself  has  to  be  had  before  one  can  apprehend  it 
and  come  to  this  realization.  For  that  reason  the 
old  occult  teachers  would  not  impart  those  deeper 
spiritual  truths  to  the  uninitiated.  To  those  who 
think  they  know  it  all,  such  doctrines  are  raving 
absurdities,  but  to  those  who  have  enough  insight 


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to  see  that  the  more  we  learn,  the  better  we  can 
see  that  we  do  not  know  anything,  they  are  wisdom. 
The  end  of  knowledge  is  to  know  God;  not  only 
to  believe,  but  to  become  one  with  God;  not  only 
to  worship  afar  off.  Man  must  know  the  reality 
of  the  divine  existence — not  only  vaguely  believe 
and  hope,  but  know  that  his  own  innermost  self 
is  one  with  God  and  that  the  aim  of  life  is  to 
realize  that  Unity.  Man,  then,  can  also  live  outside 
or  without  the  body.  It  is  in  this  condition  that 
all  prophets  get  their  revelations. 

No  method  is  applicable  to  all  kinds  of  minds 
and  conditions,  either  in  curing  disease  or  other- 
wise. There  may  be  circumstances  that  are  beyond 
control.  There  is  no  system  of  healing  known  to 
spiritual  science  that  can  cure  a  person  of  serious 
bodily  ills  and  leave  him,  as  he  lists  in  sin  and 
lust,  as  he  was  before.  Jesus  classed  sin  or  error 
in  thought  and  belief  as  the  same.  He  did  not, 
and  does  not  now,  go  out  and  cure  or  offer  to  cure 
promiscuously.  He  cured  the  receptive  few  that 
believed  in  him  and  had  confidence  in  his  ability 
and  left  the  others  go  their  way.  Also,  there  is  no 
method  or  science  to  heal  either  bodily  or  spiritual 
disorders  that  a  person  can  learn  and  apply  suc- 
cessfully, regardless  of  his  mental  attainments  and 
spiritual  developments.  One  person  can  give  in- 
structions, but  that  is  only  a  beginning — the  a,  b,  c. 
All  the  rest  the  pupil  must  accomplish  himself. 

This  spiritual  development  cannot  be  attained  in 
a  short  space  of  time,  as  a  few  days  or  months. 


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It  may  come  as  the  result  of  years  of  application. 
It  is  not  necessary  to  exclude  ourselves  from  the 
world.  The  main  condition  of  receiving  is  a  will- 
ingness to  receive  and  a  disposition  to  use  for 
good  purpose,  then  by  assuming  an  attitude  of 
passiveness  toward  it,  we  may  absorb  it,  as  the 
earth  absorbs  the  light  and  heat  of  the  sun. 

A  person  who  wishes  to  become  spiritual  and  ac- 
quire the  power  to  cure  disease  and  other  disorders 
or  to  prophesy  in  order  to  make  money  is  depart- 
ing from  Jesus  and  Christianity.  He  has  lost  his 
way  at  the  very  start  and  is  going  in  the  opposite 
direction  from  the  way  to  spirituality.  He  is  like 
one  who  would  want  to  use  wings  to  wade  in  the 
mud.  The  wings  of  the  soul  are  not  given  for 
that  purpose  or  use.  A  spiritual  person  does  not 
desire  to  sell  a  spiritual  truth  for  a  money  price. 
Spiritual  gifts  are  not  to  be  thrown  on  the  market 
of  the  world.  Jesus  and  the  apostles  did  not  use 
them  to  that  end.  Although  Jesus  was  so  poor 
that  he  himself  said  he  had  no  place  to  lay  his 
head,  he  did  not  want  a  money  reward  for  the  good 
works  he  performed  to  help  humanity.  When  a 
good  man  asked  him  what  he  should  yet  do  to  have 
everlasting  life  (becoming  and  being  spiritual  in 
the  everlasting  life),  Jesus  told  him  to  divest  him- 
self from  earthly  wealth  as  a  hindrance  or  en- 
cumbrance. 

Every  person  is  surrounded  by  an  emanative 
sphere  of  his  life — an  atmosphere  of  his  thoughts 
and  feelings.  It  is  different  in  different  persons 


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and  can  be  noticed  by  anyone  that  is  observant 
when  he  comes  close  to  another.  Persons  who  are 
magnetic  and  intuitive  can  plainly  feel  the  state  of 
mind  the  other  is  in.  This  emanative  aura  is  repre- 
sented as  a  circle  of  rays  of  light  in  pictures  of 
Jesus  and  other  saints.  It  is  invisible  to  the  phys- 
ical eye,  but  is  plainly  perceptible  to  the  inner 
being.  It  is  what  really  exists.  It  is  different  in 
the  same  person  at  different  times,  as  it  changes 
with  the  state  of  mind. 

As  we  open  our  mind  to  the  rays  of  the  spiritual 
sun — to  the  sublime  truth  that  as  a  spirit  created 
into  God's  own  image  and  indissolubly  included  In 
his  own  being — we  are  exempt  from  disease  and 
all  evil,  as  a  ray  from  his  own  intelligence,  so  we 
partake  of  his  own  tranquil  and  saving  omnipotence. 

To  this  rock  we  will  cling  against  all  doubt  and 
fear.  In  the  name  of  the  Christ,  through  whom  our 
life  is  hid  in  Thee,  the  universal  Father  and  only 
true  being,  we  affirm  in  faith  in  opposition  to 
material  sense  that  we  are  now  freed  from  all  our 
infirmities.  By  the  authority  of  Thy  inner  word 
we  denounce  disease  and  sin  as  not  being  any  part 
of  our  real  self.  Through  faith  in  Thee  we  sep- 
arate them  from  us  as  something  external  and  for- 
eign to  our  true  being.  It  is  done.  We  commit 
ourselves  to  Thee,  the  God  of  peace,  who  canst  save 
us  wholly  and  preserve  our  spirit,  soul  and  body  In 
harmonious  unity  unto  the  revelation  of  the  life 
of  immortality.  We  trust  henceforth  Thy  boundless 
Wisdom,  Love  and  Power. 


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Spiritual  thought  can  penetrate  where  spoken 
words  never  reach,  for  thought  is  more  real  than 
sound.  The  reciting  in  thought  or  tacit  verbal 
utterances  of  something  like  this  above  is  efficient 
to  change  a  patient's  mind  and  form  the  (to  him 
new)  idea  of  the  truth. 

The  curing  of  bodily  maladies  by  inflow  of  one 
mind  to  another  is  no  new  thing.  It  is  a  renew- 
ing to  life  of  dry  bones  of  primitive  Christianity, 
based  on  laws  of  mind,  as  fixed  and  certain  as  any 
principle  in  chemistry.  The  tendency  of  one  mind 
to  impart  good,  and  the  absorbent,  receptive  nature 
of  the  patient  in  a  passive  state,  with  strong  desire 
of  recovery,  will  inevitably  lead  to  that  result. 


CHAPTER  V. 
Christian    Mysteries. 

Christianity,  as  well  as  all  other  religions,  had  its 
occult  teaching,  and  the  most  important  spiritual 
doctrine  was  never  put  in  writing,  but  was  handed 
down  by  word  of  mouth  from  one  generation  to 
another  for  at  least  two  or  three  hundred  years. 


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Teachings  of  actual  spiritual  realization  were  not 
considered  proper  to  give  to  the  public  or  material- 
istic-minded people,  as  is  amply  proved  by  the  writ- 
ings of  the  New  Testament.  Jesus  said:  "You 
shall  not  throw  the  pearls  before  the  swine  lest 
they  trample  them  under  foot  and  turn  and  rend 
you."  It  is  the  same  today.  Infidels  and  other 
materialists  are  as  apt  now  as  then  to  persecute 
and  consider  insane  anyone  that  will  try  to  'give 
them  the  best  teachings  of  Christianity. 

The  gospel  gives  the  allegorical  explanation,  but 
the  deeper  meaning  was  given  only  to  the  initiates 
of  the  inner  circle.  Jesus  tells  even  his  apostles, 
"I  have  yet  many  things  to  say  to  you,  but  you 
cannot  bear  them  now."  Some  were  said  to  them 
after  his  resurrection,  when  he  spake  to  his  dis- 
ciples of  the  things  pertaining  to  the  kingdom  of 
God.  None  of  these  have  been  publicly  recorded, 
but  they  were  not  neglected  or  forgotten,  but  were 
handed  down  as  priceless  possessions, 

The  early  fathers  of  the  church,  after  the  apos- 
tles spoke  in  the  same  strain,  such  as  St.  Clement, 
St.  Basilius  and  others,  wrote  down  many  of  the 
teachings  that  are  not  found  in  the  Bible.  St. 
John,  the  apostle,  says:  "That  if  all  that  Jesus 
taught  were  put  in  writing,  the  world  could  not 
hold  it  or  grasp  it." 

Ignatius,  a  disciple  of  St.  John,  Bishop  of  An- 
tioch,  speaks  of  himself  as  not  yet  perfect  in  Christ. 
He  says:  "I  might  write  to  you  things  full  of 
mystery,  but  I  fear  to  do  so,  lest  not  being  able  to 


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receive  their  mighty  import,  it  might  be  an  injury 
to  you,  being  but  babes.  For  even  I,  though  I  am 
bound  for  Christ  and  can  understand  heavenly 
things  and  the  angelic  orders,  cannot  yet  compare 
with  such  disciples  as  Paul  or  Peter." 

Clemens  says:  "Many  things,  I  well  know,  have 
escaped  us  through  length  of  time — that  dropped 
away  unwritten.  Even  the  well  prepared  and 
trained  pupil  can  only  hope  to  advance  step  by 
step  in  the  profound  truths  unveiled  in  the  mys- 
teries. The  faith  of  the  gospel  helped  the  ignorant 
and  is  an  assistance  to  the  knowledge  of  God,  and, 
finally,  to  have  wisdom." 

Origen  says:  "I  endeavor  to  improve  the  unin- 
telligent to  the  best  of  my  ability,  although  I 
would  not  desire  to  build  up  a  Christian  community 
of  such  material."  So  the  lack  of  suitable  pupils 
later  caused  the  mysteries  to  be  withdrawn  as  an 
institution,  publicly  known  to  exist,  and  was  given 
only  very  few  rarer  and  rarer  souls  who  were 
capable  of  receiving  it,  and  with  the  disappearance 
of  these  the  door  was  shut. 

In  the  early  Christian  Church  it  was  not  thought 
that  Christ  came  to  appease  the  wrath  of  God  for 
our  sins,  but  thought  rather  that  by  having  his  life 
as  a  model  and  confidence  in  the  help  of  his  spirit, 
for  following  in  his  footsteps  we  should  be  freed 
from  our  erroneous  ways  and  become  like  him, 
fit  for  eternal  life,  which  is  union  with  him  and 
with  God;  the  spirit  in  man  is  the  gift  of  the 
supreme  God.  It  first  develops  intelligence,  then 


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love,    and    love    evolves    into    the    wisdom    of    the 
Christ. 

As  Christian  teachers  lost  touch  with  Christ's 
teaching  of  a  loving  Father,  they  represented  him 
as  angry  with  man,  and  Christ  was  made  to  save 
them  from  the  wrath  of  God  instead  of  from  the 
bondage  of  evil.  Atonement  is  through  sacrifice. 
One  must  sacrifice  earthly  things  for  a  higher 
life.  Duty  may  demand  all  in  which  life  seems 
to  consist,  and  the  man  still  identified  in  feeling 
with  the  form  feels  that  all  he  feels  as  life  is 
demanded  of  him  and  says,  "If  I  let  this  go,  what 
will  remain?"  Consciousness  sees  nothing  to  grasp; 
on  the  other  side,  an  imperious  voice  calls  on  him 
to  surrender  his  very  life.  If  he  shrinks  back,  he 
must  go  on  in  the  life  of  the  world  in  which  he 
finds  only  dissatisfaction  and  regret,  whereas  if  he 
risks  all  in  obedience  to  the  inner  voice — if  he 
throws  away  what  seems  to  be  his  life — he  finds  it 
unto  life  eternal — a  spiritual  life  in  which  he  can 
realize  happiness  under  any  circumstances;  he  finds 
that  what  he  surrendered  was  only  illusion.  Then 
he  finds  that  life  thus  won  is  for  all — not  for  the 
separated  self.  For  those  who  sacrifice  the  sep- 
arated life  to  be  a  channel  of  divine  life  can  be  of 
no  interest  in  this  world  but  the  helping  of  others. 
He  learns  to  be  himself  in  consciousness  with  those 
around  him;  he  feels  with  them  and  thinks  with 
them;  he  brings  into  his  daily  life  that  sense  of 
unity  with  others  which  vibrates  in  harmony  that 
belongs  to  the  higher  realms  of  being.  But  unless 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  33  j 

one    has    had    some    similar    experience    he    cannot  J 
understand   it.     The   true    center   of   divine   life    is1; 
within  and  not  without.    None  can  fully  sympathize 
with    human    suffering    unless    he    faced    and    con- 
quered fear  and  death  unaided,  save  by  the  aid  of 
God  within  him. 

Evolving  spiritually  is  marked  not  by  what  one 
does,  but  by  how  he  does  it;  not  in  the  circum- 
stances, but  in  his  attitude  toward  them.  All  the 
aspirant  does  should  be  prompted  by  the  fervor 
of  self-sacrificing  love.  We  may  measure  our  prog- 
ress by  watching  whether  selfishness  or  self-sacri- 
fice is  dominant  in  our  lives.  The  early  Christian 
Church  taught  the  reincarnation  of  men's  spirit  that 
human  evolution  needs  many  successive  lives  on 
earth  before  the  soul  can  be  perfected  like  Christ 
and  become  one  with  the  Father  and  realize  this 
union. 

A  man  in  whom  the  inner  divinity  is  largely  un- 
folded and  whose  subtle  bodies  are  therefore  re- 
sponsive to  higher  vibration  of  consciousness. 
Through  such  a  man  spiritual  energy  may  be 
poured  forth,  and  these  will  unite  themselves  with 
his  pure,  vital  magnetism.  He  can  then  pour 
them  forth  on  other  persons,  and  even  on  other 
objects,  and  the  other  body  will  become  atuned  to 
his  vibration  and  in  turn  become  magnetized  as  a 
magnetic  center — like  a  body  that  is  electrified  will 
affect  other  bodies  that  are  in  contact  with  it. 

A  person  divinely  developed  by  the  spirit  will 
radiate  the  good  qualities,  such  as  love,  peace  of 


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mind,  harmony  and  equanimity,  on  other  persons 
with  whom,  he  comes  in  contact  to  such  an  extent 
that  it  will  eliminate  disease  of  the  body  as  well 
as  inspire  calmness,  harmony  and  happiness  to 
the  mind.  This  is  done  not  so  much  by  the  person 
as  healer,  but  by  the  spirit  that  flows  through  him. 
When  one  comes  even  near  such  person  he  involun- 
tarily feels  the  quieting  and  peaceful  influence  so 
that  he  will  say  it  feels  good  to  be  near  him. 


CHAPTER  VI. 
Outside   the    Body. 

All  forces  are  spiritual,  and  spiritual  truth  is  a 
divine  force.  We  can  do  nothing  against  the  truth. 
II  Cor.  13-8.  A  living  thought  is  a  power  when  it 
proceeds  from  the  real  center  of  our  being.  This 
power  is  becoming  recognized  by  science.  Hegel 
and  others  say:  "Throughout  the  entire  universe 
thought  is  the  controlling  sovereign." 

It  is  possible  for  the  mind  body  to  free  itself 
from  the  physical  body  and  emancipate  itself  from 
material  restraints  and  limitations.  It  then  acts 
regardless  of  time  and  space,  and  can  transport 
itself  with  its  senses  to  any  distance  guided  and 


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governed  by  inner  divine  spirit.  It  can  make  itself 
felt  and  seen  by  persons  to  whom  it  wishes  to 
appear,  for  it  is  where  it  thinks  to  be.  I,  myself, 
have  experienced  and  proved  all  this  and  many 
witnesses  now  living  can  testify  to  it. 

The  first  time  I  had  this  experience  I  was  lying 
on  a  bed  in  a  kind  of  half-conscious  doze,  on  an 
evening  at  the  time  of  dusk.  The  day  before  I  had 
met  a  person  with  whom  I  had  not  much  acquaint- 
ance; we  wished  to  speak  to  one  another,  but  did 
not  get  the  opportunity,  but  we  had  the  impression 
of  our  features  in  our  minds.  The  building  I  was 
in  was  locked  and  guarded.  The  other  person  was 
some  distance  away  in  another  building,  which  was 
also  locked,  so  that  neither  of  us  could  have  left 
his  place  without  other  people  knowing  it.  Then, 
in  thought  and  spirit,  I  left  my  physical  body  and 
went  out  of  the  building  and  into  the  other  build- 
ing to  visit  that  other  person.  I  stayed  there  a 
while  and  then  returned  to  my  body.  I  could  not 
say  how  much  time  elapsed  while  I  was  out  of 
the  physical  body. 

Next  morning  I  did  not  say  a  word  about  it  to 
anyone,  but  the  other  party  related  to  many  others 
that  I  had  entered  the  room  at  the  exact  time; 
gave  the  conversation  we  had,  and  could  see  and 
feel  my  presence  there  as  plainly  as  if  I  had  been 
there  in  body,  although  the  others  knew  that  I 
never  left  my  bed.  I  have  read  years  ago  of 
Hindu  adepts  leaving  their  bodies  and  roaming  off 
in  space  and  then  returning.  This,  at  that  time, 


36  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

appeared  to  me  as  unreasonable  phantasie,  be- 
cause I  had  not  then  the  knowledge  that  spirit 
has  its  being  and  consciousness  away  from  the  phys- 
ical body  as  well  as  with  it.  This  has  been  proved 
to  me,  and  through  me  to  others,  many  times  since. 

One  married  couple  asserted  to  some  of  their 
friends  one  morning  that  I  had  come  in  their  room, 
remained  a  while  and  then  vanished  again.  When 
asked:  "Why  don't  you  lock  the  door?"  They 
said  the  door  was  securely  locked;  he  did  not  open 
the  door,  but  came  and  went  through  the  wall.  I 
knew,  and  was  conscious  myself,  that  I  did  in 
spirit  or  astral  body  all  they  said,  for  no  walls  of 
any  kind  or  any  matter  is  any  impediment  or 
hindrance  to  spirit.  Even  the  astral  body  can  pass 
through  stone  wall  as  easily  as  the  physical  body 
goes  through  the  air,  or  as  well  as  an  electric  cur- 
rent passes  through  an  iron  or  copper  plate. 

A  short  time  before  this  writing  the  same  phe- 
nomena has  again  been  demonstrated  to  several 
persons  near  San  Francisco.  While  the  individual 
spirit  is  absent  from  the  body  life  and  vital  process 
is  carried  on  by  the  universal  spirit,  or,  you  may 
say,  by  subconscious  mind.  During  this  separa- 
tion of  spirit  from  the  body  the  person  appears  to 
be  in  a  normal  state,  without  trance,  and  in  a 
partly  waking  state.  It  would  seem  that  to  free 
the  spirit  from  the  body  would  be  the  highest  state 
of  spiritual  development,  but  this  is  not  the  case. 
It  was  regarded  in  hermetic  philosophy  as  a  first 
step  in  spiritual  elevation.  I  also  found  this  one 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  37 

of  the  first  qualities  made  known  to  me,  or  the  first 
step  after  thought  transference  to  free  the  spirit 
from  the  limitations  of  the  bodily  senses  is  a  philo- 
sophical state. 

To  separate  the  body  from  the  soul  is  called 
natural  death.  To  be  able  to  emancipate  or  free 
the  soul  from  all  dependence  on  organic  condition 
is  necessary  for  spiritual  development.  Then  we 
can  see  things  in  their  reality. 

In  1895  there  was  in  San  Francisco  a  man  named 
Schlatter,  who  had  the  Holy  Spirit  of  healing  power 
to  a  remarkable  degree.  He  healed  all  kinds  of 
diseases  that  did  not  require  a  surgical  operation. 
His  spirit  and  aura  enabled  him  to  give  any  medi- 
cal quality  to  bread  crumbs  and  water,  and  with 
them  cured  a  great  many  diseases  and  ailments. 
Hundreds  of  people  were  absolutely  convinced  of 
his  occult  power;  many  of  them  are  still  living. 
He  did  not  ask  or  desire  any  pay,  and  used  no 
drugs,  so  the  medical  men  could  not  prosecute  him. 
He  could  also  endow  bandages  or  paper  with  heal- 
ing qualities  to  heal  in  a  short  time  bruises  and 
wounds.  Then  all  at  once  he  disappeared,  and  it 
was  rumored  that  spiritualists  and  mediums  took 
him  out  in  the  desert  and  killed  him  on  account  of 
jealousy.  They  said  he  was  too  good  to  live,  but 
not  one  was  punished.  That  was  the  last  that  was 
ever  heard  of  him. 

All  mystery  of  magic  and  magnetism  consist  in 
the  divine  gift  to  give  direction  through  faith  to 
the  universal  spirit  of  life.  Few  persons  know  of 


38  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

the  power  that  is  latent  in  human  nature,  and  it 
is  well  that  it  is  so.  It  is  hard  to  go  against  the 
current  of  the  age  or  the  world  spirit,  which  is  all 
materialistic.  This  is  what  Jesus  calls  the  world; 
he  did  not  mean  the  earth. 


CHAPTER   VII. 
Revelation 

There  is  in  man  a  larger  consciousness  than  that 
which  is  ordinarily  felt  and  received  through  the 
brain.  The  first  evidence  of  this  is  premonition 
and  intuitions.  They  are  found  widely  spread;  they 
range  from  vague  impressions  to  clear  sight  of 
things  impending  or  going  to  happen,  which  the 
brain  does  not  normally  respond  to.  An  ever- 
increasing  amount  of  testimony  to  them  come  for- 
ward as  they  are  less  ridiculed  by  science. 

Some  people  have  been  able  to  look  very  defin- 
itely in  their  own  bodies.  In  one  case  of  disorder 
the  patient  not  only  described  the  disease,  but 
stated  exactly  how  it  was  caused  and  described  a 
little  bit  of  a  bone  which  got  in  a  passage  where 
no  bone  should  be.  The  bone  was  found  and  re- 
moved by  scientific  medical  men,  and  they  could 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  39 

not  doubt  the  materiality  of  the  proof.  This  is  a 
case  of  exaltation  of  the  senses.  It  means  that  the 
senses  are  stimulated  to  a  greater  keenness  of  per- 
ception. Exaltation  of  the  intelligence  and  exalta- 
tion of  the  emotions  are  other  instances  in  the 
same  line  as  testimony  to  a  larger  consciousness. 

Heightening  or  exaltation  of  consciousness  by 
losing  ordinary  consciousness  is  found  in  hypnosis 
or  trance.  Exaltation  of  intellect  when  self-stimu- 
lated, without  losing  ordinary  consciousness,  is 
manifested  as  genius.  An  ordinary  man  sometimes 
finds  himself  stimulated,  he  knows  not  whence,  to 
heroic  courage  or  marvelous  self-sacrifice  in  saving 
lives  of  others,  etc.  This  is  the  exaltation  of  the 
emotions.  These  things  are  found  scattered  all 
over  the  world  today. 

In  its  lower  stage  this  is  common  enough.  In 
its  higher  stages  it  reaches  the  ecstacy  of  the 
mystic  and  the  saint,  so  that,  just  as  the  exaltation 
of  the  intelligence  is  found  in  the  man  of  genius, 
so  is  the  highest  exaltation  of  the  emotions  found 
in  the  mystic  of  faith,  when  he  passes  beyond  the 
stage  in  which  he  normally  resides,  and  has  there 
experiences  more  real  to  him  than  the  experiences 
that  come  to  him  through  the  senses,  exercising 
over  him  a  compelling  power  and  shaping  of  his 
life. 

Three  years  ago  the  author  was  in  Southern 
California  in  great  tribulation  and  fear,  but  I  com- 
pletely surrendered  self,  with  all  I  had  and  the 
whole  being,  into  the  will  and  keeping  of  the 


40  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

omnipresent  spirit  of  God.  There  I  found  safety 
and  salvation,  like  coming  in  from  the  stormy 
sea  when  coming  near  being  drowned.  I  entered 
into  a  still  harbor  where  everything  is  beautiful 
and  serene.  I  could  plainly  feel  the  throbbings  of 
vibrations  from  the  spiritual  world.  I  was  in  a 
room  looking  out  of  a  small  window  when  a  lady 
and  gentleman  passed.  As  I  looked  at  the  lady  she 
reminded  me  of  an  aunt  of  mine  who  died  many 
years  before.  All  of  a  sudden  I  felt  a  strong  shock, 
like  an  electric  shock,  and  felt  it  passing  over  to 
the  lady.  At  the  same  moment  the  countenance  of 
both  of  us  lighted  up  and  shone  bright  as  the  sun, 
so  that  we  could  not  look  at  each  other;  we  had  a 
feeling  of  being  lifted  up  in  space  and  had  such 
a  heavenly  sensation  of  bliss,  peace  and  restful- 
ness  that  it  is  entirely  impossible  to  describe  or 
convey  in  words. 

The  gentleman  who  was  arm  in  arm  with  the 
lady  also  felt  the  shock  and  the  blissful  sensation, 
but  did  not  come  to  radiate  the  light  as  we  did. 
I  was  alone  in  the  room  and  the  other  two  were 
fifteen  or  more  feet  away  from  me  outside.  One  or 
two  other  persons  a  little  farther  away  could  see 
the  light  radiating  from  us,  and  to  some  extent  feel 
a  spiritual  presence.  This  occurred  in  broad  day- 
light, in  less  time  than  it  takes  to  relate  it,  as  the 
transfiguration  did  not  last  more  than  a  minute,  but 
the  affect  of  peace  and  happiness  are  still  with 
me  and  will  stay  with  me.  I  regard  it  as  a  revela- 
tion of  the  grace  and  love  of  God.  At  first  I  called 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  41 

it  a  union  of  souls  or  spirits — a  conjunction  of  our 
spirit  with  the  universal. 

This  manifestation  did  not  appear  on  account  of 
any  good  qualities  of  mine;  neither  was  it  my  voli- 
tion. I  could  not  prevent  it  if  I  would,  nor  could  I 
repeat  it  with  my  will.  To  my  knowledge,  such 
transfigurations  are  recorded  only  for  Jesus  and 
three  of  his  disciples  on  the  mountain  and  for 
one,  Plotinus,  who  was  a  scholar  of  the  apostles, 
but  in  his  case  there  are  no  witnesses  given  be- 
sides himself.  This  is  not  found  in  the  Bible,  but 
in  some  later  writings  of  the  fathers  of  the  early 
church. 

Paulus,  when  he  went  to  Damascus,  intending 
to  persecute  the  Christians,  was  enveloped  with  a 
blinding  light  and  words  by  the  spirit  of  Christ  to 
convert  him  to  Christianity,  but  it  inspired  to  him 
a  sense  of  fear,  awe  and  respect,  rather  than  a 
feeling  of  rest  and  bliss.  Paul  was  a  very  intelli- 
gent, well  educated,  courageous  man  and  a  well 
adapted  teacher  for  the  Christ  spirit  to  act  through 
him.  He  was  on  that  account  won  over  to  the 
Christian  faith  by  spiritual  force. 

Of  such  revelation  Paul  speaks  of  being  caught 
up  to  the  third  heaven,  and  there  hearing  unspeak- 
able words  which  it  is  not  lawful  for  a  man  to 
utter. 

I,  myself,  never  spoke  to  anyone  about  this  oc- 
currence to  other  people,  but  those  who  had  part 
in  it  talked  about  it  and  said  it  came  from  me. 
Afterward  those  who  came  near  me  said  a  bene- 


42  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

ficial,  peaceful  or  good  influence  emanated  from 
me,  of  which  I  was  not  conscious.  They  would 
come  close  to  me  and  say,  I  want  to  get  some  of 
his  influence.  And  I  said,  "I  do  not  know  of  any 
influence;  there  is  not  any  to  get."  Later  on,  even 
doctors  of  medicine  and  materialistic  scientists, 
who  did  not  believe  in  the  presence  and  power  of 
spirit,  God,  claimed  that  they  could  feel  an  influ- 
ence of  peace  coming  from  me  when  they  came 
near  me,  though  they  did  not  like  it  and  did  not 
want  to  be  influenced. 

Sometimes  spiritual  phenomena  is  chasing  the 
materialist  and  they  are  running  away  from  them. 
They  said  a  light  was  radiating  from  me  so  that 
they  could  not  look  in  my  eyes.  When  I  came  to 
a  larger  acquaintance  of  many  people  I  heard 
those  same  statements  repeated  often — not  to  me 
but  among  themselves — so  I  had  to  accept  it  as  a 
truth  as  well  as  they. 

If  there  were  not  so  many  to  testify  to  these 
facts,  and  myself  alone  made  those  statements, 
the  worldly  wise  would  call  it  a  fixed  idea,  based 
on  an  error  of  mind,  by  which  they  would  mean 
insanity.  But  the  persons  concerned  are  now  (at 
the  time  of  this  writing)  living  in  California  and 
will  testify  to  the  truth  of  this  narrative  if  any 
competent  party  wishes  to  investigate  and  inquire 
for  their  names. 

To  enter  unto  the  will  of  God  is  an  initiation  of 
such  power  and  beauty  that  language  is  inadequate 
to  interpret  this  supreme  experience.  That  won- 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  43 

derful  test  of  seeing  every  event  of  life  from  the 
point  of  view  of  the  will  of  God  changes  the  scale 
of  human  experience. 

Let  the  higher  consciousness  play  upon  a  capable 
brain,  a  strong  heart  and  a  sound  nervous  system 
and  there  is  a  union  which  nothing  on  earth  is  able 
to  conquer — a  force  which  nothing  is  able  to  shake. 
Fixed  ideas  that  are  out  of  all  reason;  that  over- 
bears all  appeal  and  rationality;  ideas  that  no  one 
else  can  see  in  that  same  way  as  the  obsessed  per- 
son, are  madness. 

There  is  another  type  of  fixed  idea  that  some  peo- 
ple would  call  a  form  of  insanity.  It  is  the  kind 
of  idea  that  makes  the  martyr,  the  saint  and  the 
hero;  an  idea  that  dominates  all  the  ordinary  at- 
tractions of  life  in  face  of  which  nothing  can  make 
an  affective  appeal,  nothing  can  turn  aside  the 
man  from  the  path  along  which  he  is  going.  These 
fixed  ideas  we  find  in  the  very  noblest  children  of 
the  race.  If  these  are  insane,  then  insanity  is  very 
beneficial  to  the  world  at  large,  for  such  men  of 
fixed  ideas  were  Moses  and  the  Prophets,  Buddha 
and  the  Hindu  adepts;  Jesus  and  Paul  and  other 
martyrs  down  to  the  present  time.  To  such  men 
of  fixed  ideas  we  are  indebted  for  our  present  day 
civilization. 

The  normal  brain  is  fitted  by  evolution  to  the 
work  of  the  world.  Now,  if  there  comes  down  on 
that  brain  a  number  of  vibrations  from  the  astral 
or  mental  plane,  beating  on  that  normal  brain, 
there  comes  great  waves  of  consciousness  from 


44  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

those  planes,  and  the  brain  that  is  prepared  only 
for  the  physical  may  become  unbalanced,  but  these 
vibrations  will  fit  the  brain  to  be  able  to  respond 
to  them  in  time,  just  as  an  athlete  gets  more  life 
and  strength  into  his  muscles  by  exercises  and 
use,  even  if  he  may  overstrain  them.  By  proper 
food  and  exercise  of  Will  and  mind  and  thought 
control,  trying  to  receive  and  answer  to  those 
higher  vibrations,  consciousness  is  trained  to  the 
three  worlds  instead  of  only  one.  The  human  con- 
sciousness is  not  tied  down  to  the  physical  plane, 
but  when  the  knowledge  comes  to  us  clearly  de- 
fined, distinct,  then  we  know  that  it  is  not  coming 
by  vibration  from  the  other  planes  playing  on  the 
consciousness  from  without;  then  it  comes  from 
the  spirit  itself,  sending  down  his  own  inspirations, 
and  we  can  distinguish  the  inspirations  from  within, 
from  the  results  of  impact  from  without,  by  the 
clearness  and  definiteness  of  their  coming,  by  the 
illuminating  nature  of  the  revelation. 

Only  those  who  know  are  fit  to  teach  those  who 
believe.  No  man  knows  the  truth  so  that  he  can 
never  doubt  it  until  the  revelation  has  come  to 
him  as  though  he  stood  alone  on  earth,  until  the 
divine  without  has  spoken  to  the  divine  within — in 
the  temple  of  the  human  heart — and  the  man  thus 
knows  by  himself  and  not  by  another.  The  light 
may  vanish  and  the  darkness  come  upon  him;  the 
gleam  of  heaven  may  fade  and  clouds  surround 
him;  threats  and  challenges  may  assail  him,  but 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  45 

within  his  heart  there  nestles  the  secret  of  peace 
he  knows. 

Whoso  has  felt  the  spirit  of  the  highest  cannot 
confound  nor  doubt  him  nor  deny.  Yea,  with 
one  voice,  O  world,  though  thou  deniest,  stand  thou 
on  that  side  for  on  this  am  I.  Though  thou  shouldst 
strike  him  from  his  glory,  even  on  the  cross  would 
he  maintain  his  story.  One  who  thus  knows  Is 
then  qualified  to  speak  of  heavenly  things,  and  will 
impart  to  receptive  listeners,  to  some  extent,  the 
inspiration  and  feeling  of  the  truth  he  teaches. 


CHAPTER  VIII. 
Thought   Transference. 

The  development  of  the  mental  power  on  the 
supersensuous  plane  in  sphere  of  the  occult, 
through  the  awakening  of  the  all  inclusive  sixth 
sense,  is  as  normal  and  legitimate  as  is  the  activity 
on  the  outward  plane  of  the  physical  senses.  When 
this  inward  development  is  complete,  the  mind 
attains  absolute  supremacy  over  the  body.  It  can 
control  the  memory,  retain  or  banish  impression  at 
pleasure. 


46  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

Still  higher  results  of  this  occult  development 
and  knowledge  is  intuition,  inner  hearing  and  sight; 
psychometric  sense,  etc.  This  condition  gives  the 
mind  free  access  to  knowledge  at  first  hand  and 
will  ultimately  render  many  cumbersome  external 
apparatus  unnecessary,  when  direct  communication 
from  mind  to  mind  at  any  distance  will  be  a  com- 
mon experience. 

Language  is  a  compromise  with  thought — that  is, 
no  words  are  expressive  or  delicate  enough  to 
convey  perfectly  our  thought  and  feelings.  This 
can  only  be  done  through  mental  transmission  or 
telepathy,  as  in  the  case  of  some  minds  who  are 
so  closely  akin  that  they  almost  think  in  unison. 
The  human  emotions  transcend  in  their  expression 
all  limitation  of  language. 

The  law  of  telepathy  between  persons  of  sym- 
pathetic spirit  and  receptivity  is  like  other  laws 
of  the  universe.  The  magnetic  sensations  of  thought 
current  is  astounding.  The  actions  of  electricity  fade 
into  nothingness  before  the  actions  of  spirit.  The 
divine  life  labors  incessantly  by  means  of  all  things 
for  our  advancement. 

It  is  a  scientific  fact  that  any  vibration  set  up 
in  the  ether  goes  on  infinitely,  communicating  itself 
to  that  which  is  in  tune  or  correspondence  with  its 
rate  of  vibration.  This  is  the  basis  of  wireless 
telegraphy.  It  is  also  the  explanation  of  telepathy. 
A  thought  can  set  up  a  vibration  in  the  finer  spir- 
itual essense  which  can  be  received  by  receptive 
minds  in  tune.  It  may  yet  be  developed  so  that  a 


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magnetic  person  can  call  up  another  (even  at  great 
distance)  with  a  magnetic  ear  and  he  will  hear  it 
and  give  answer,  while  others  near  him  will  hear 
nothing. 

What  we  call  language  is  thought  expressed  on 
the  plane  of  sense.  Our  true  being  lies  behind 
the  veil  of  sense,  and  this  can  hear  and  speak  the 
soundless  language  of  thought  and  ideas.  Thought 
is  the  supersensuous  side  of  language  and  a  more 
real  and  potent  thing  than  spoken  words.  Com- 
munication of  thought  and  ideas  from  one  mind  to 
another  without  spoken  words  has  been  practiced 
in  all  ages  of  the  world  by  the  spiritually  unfolded 
man.  Such  communication  is  perfectly  natural  and 
easy  to  the  spiritual  man.  It  has  been  and  is  now 
practiced  by  the  Hindu  adepts  in  occult  science. 
This  is  in  perfect  harmony  with  the  laws  of  spirit, 
for  what  men  call  the  supernatural  is  the  natural 
in  the  spiritual  sphere. 

Thought  is  the  most  real  thing  in  the  universe. 
When  united  with  love  or  emotion,  is  the  divinest 
and  most  far-reaching  force  in  the  realm  of  being. 
Thought  is  not  a  faculty  of  mind;  it  is  mind  itself. 
Imagination  is  inseparable  from  the  spirit  of  man, 
for  wherever  I  imagine  myself  to  be,  there  my  spirit 
and  astral  personality  is,  and  I  can  speak  in  thought 
the  language  spirit  of  my  friend,  who  is  another 
spirit,  and  he  can  understand  it.  In  sleep,  when 
the  spirit  is  more  freed  from  the  limitations  of  the 
body,  the  mind  is  more  sensitive  to  impressions  of 
thought  from  another.  One  can,  by  fixing  his  mind 


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on  the  sleeper  and  imagining  clearly  any  scene  or 
event,  cause  it  to  appear  to  him  as  in  a  dream. 

How  much  the  thoughts  of  our  friends  influence 
us  for  good  or  evil  we  do  not  know,  but  surely  more 
than  the  world  is  ready  to  admit.  It  is  an  ascer- 
tained fact  of  science  that  thought  action  goes  side 
by  side  with  electric  or  magnetic  action.  These 
magnetic  currents  increase  with  hard  thinking.  As 
in  wireless  telegraphy,  thought  starts  a  vibration 
in  a  finer  ether  and  can  be  received  by  a  mind 
in  tune  to  that  vibration.  Thought  may  be  trans- 
ferred on  three  different  planes;  it  may  go  from 
brain  to  brain  just  as  wireless  telegraphy.  It 
may  go  from  astral  body  to  astral  body  on  a  higher 
plane,  or  it  may  be  transferred  from  one  mentality 
to  another  through  a  still  finer  ether.  In  the 
latter  case,  not  only  the  actually  conscious  thought 
of  the  sender  is  received,  but  also  that  is  hidden 
in  his  mind  at  the  time  behind  conscious  thought. 

Ordinarily,  where  thoughts  are  first  sent  they 
are  received  as  a  voice,  as  though  he  heard  the 
person  talking.  It  may  arrive  an  idea  without 
sound  or  it  may  be  received  as  an  image  of  a  per- 
son or  object  the  sender  is  thinking  of.  In  order 
to  receive  a  message  one  must  be  very  passive. 
It  is  necessary  for  the  receiver  to  be  passive  as 
it  is  for  the  sender  to  be  positive,  for  that  reason 
it  seems  to  be  working  better  for  the  sender  to 
be  a  male  and  the  receiver  a  female.  Many  years 
ago,  when  Mr.  Svengaly  went  through  the  country 
giving  exhibitions,  I  saw  him  in  the  Orpheum  in 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  49 

San  Francisco.  He  would  go  out  among  the  audi- 
ence with  paper  and  pencil  and  tell  one  of  them 
to  write  some  name  or  sentence  and  give  it  to 
him.  His  wife  stayed  on  the  stage  with  her  back 
toward  the  audience.  As  Svengaly  read  the  sen- 
tence in  thought  only,  without  speaking  a  word, 
the  wife  wrote  it  in  big  letters  and  exhibited  it  to 
the  audience. 

This  seemed  strange  or  occult  to  most  people. 
Since  that  I  have  done  even  better  than  that.  I 
can  be  in  another  building,  a  distance  away  from 
the  receiver,  and  the  person  does  not  even  have  to 
be  a  close  acquaintance.  I  can  read  a  paper  or  a 
lecture,  nor  aloud — only  in  thought — and  she  can 
understand  every  word,  even  when  other  persons 
are  in  the  same  room  with  her,  talking.  The  others 
do  not  hear  or  perceive  anything,  because  they 
are  not  in  tune  with  that  thought  vibration.  Only 
the  person  whom  the  sender  has  in  mind,  and  is 
reading  to,  does  receive  it. 

When  I  first  came  to  know  about  this  thought- 
reading  faculty  I  was  sitting  in  a  room  of  a  neigh- 
bor, where  several  of  the  family  were  present.  I 
was  reading,  when  one  of  their  boys  said  something 
about  me.  When  I  answered  aloud,  the  boy  said: 
"I  did  not  say  anything;  it  was  only  a  thought."< 
Later,  when  I  paid  closer  attention,  I  perceived  th 
I  could  also  hear  the  father's  thoughts  without  him 
speaking.  Later  on,  other  persons  obtained  the 
ability  to  understand  or  read  my  thoughts  without 


50  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

my  volition.  They  claimed  it  was  given  to  them  by 
some  spiritualistic  medium. 

Although  I  could  hear  the  thoughts  of  a  person 
close  by,  when  there  were  several  people  together 
I  could  not  understand  anything,  as  it  made  too 
much  confusion.  My  thought-readers  could  perceive 
only  my  thoughts  and  nobody's  else.  They  were 
affected  by  my  state  of  mind;  when  I  was  sad  or 
depressed,  they  felt  the  same,  and  when  I  felt 
joyous  and  happy,  they  would  partake  of  that,  too. 
Still  later  I  found  that  I  could  impart  the  thought- 
reading  ability  to  a  person  to  whom  I  desired  to 
speak  in  private  and  did  not  get  the  opportunity. 
The  receivers  also  felt  all  that  I  felt.  If  my  shoes 
were  pinching,  they  would  feel  the  pressure,  and 
in  everything  they  would  feel  the  same  as  I  did. 

I  never  gave  any  exhibitions  or  made  those  ex- 
periences public,  and  as  I  did  not  live  any  great 
length  of  time  with  the  same  people,  neither  did  I 
afterward  correspond  with  them,  I  could  not  say 
how  long  the  receivers  felt  that  affect  afterward. 
All  those  concerned  are  now  living  in  California 
and  would  be  willing  to  testify  to  the  truth  of  above 
statements,  but  as  I  did  not  ask  their  permission 
it  would  not  be  proper  to  give  their  names. 

By  applying  part  of  your  time  to  close  atten- 
tion and  study  to  the  higher  world  you  will  find 
that  those  vibrations  will  gradually  assert  them- 
selves in  consciousness.  At  first  it  may  be  a  dim 
illumination — an  insight  into  the  meaning  of  some 
favorite  books — which  you  never  enjoyed  before; 


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a  grasping  of  the  ideas  beyond  what  you  could  be- 
fore in  your  normal  study. 

Then  you  will  know  that  thought  transference 
is  going  on  from  the  higher  mental  worlds  to  the 
physical  brain,  and  that  you  are  coming  in  touch 
with  the  mind,  not  only  with  the  brain  conscious- 
ness, of  others.  As  you  cannot  gain  knowledge  in 
this  world  even  by  the  brain  without  close  attention 
to  the  things  you  study,  much  less  can  you  expect 
to  understand  the  knowledge  of  the  higher  worlds 
without  turning  your  attention  in  that  direction. 
If  you  are  always  rushing  on  the  physical  plane 
and  your  mind  is  occupied  and  worried  about  ma- 
terial things,  you  cannot  possibly  perceive  any  of 
the  finer  vibrations  on  the  astral  or  mental  plane. 


Chapter  IX. 

Not    Spiritualism. 

Although  it  has  been  shown  as  an  unbroken 
thread  all  through  this  volume  that  man  is  spirit- 
ual; that  he  is  an  immortal,  eternal  soul  of  divine 
origin,  it  does  not  agree  with,  but  is  at  wide 
divergence  from,  the  doctrine  of  spiritualism.  So- 
called  spiritualists  and  their  mediums  are  atheists. 


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Many  of  them  have  told  the  author  direct  that 
there  is  no  such  a  being  as  God,  but  only  great 
numbers  of  spirits  at  discord,  one  with  another. 
In  spiritualists'  literature  a  divine  being,  as  the 
cause  of  all  life,  spiritual  and  material,  controlling 
the  whole  universe,  is  not  recognized,  but  only 
spirits  of  the  realm.  This  contention  is  straight- 
way antagonistic  to  all  ancient  and  Christian  mod- 
ern philosophic  truth. 

The  orderly  cosmic  movement  of  matter  in  space 
shows  the  existence  of  one  supreme  being,  an  om- 
nicent  and  omnipotent  ruler  over  all.  A  mass  of  dis- 
cordant spirits,  as  the  only  power,  would  cause  chaos. 
The  author  does  not  claim  to  be  and  is  not  a  me- 
dium of  any  spirit  of  the  realm;  he  never  asked  any- 
thing or  wished  to  have  anything  to  do  with  any 
medium  or  spiritualist.  Any  spiritual  gift  that  he 
obtained  from  the  divine  spirit,  the  Holy  Ghost  of 
Christianity,  which  was  promised  and  received  by 
the  apostles  of  Jesus  and  by  many  others  since  that 
time.  This  Holy  Ghost  is  an  emanation  from  the 
supreme  God.  It  is  as  far  above  the  spirit  of  the 
medium  as  what  we  call  heaven  is  above  the  earth. 
It  is  the  same  spirit  by  which  Moses  was  superior 
to  all  the  Egyptian  Magicians,  although  they  had  the 
same  education  that  Moses  had.  It  is  the  same  spirit 
by  which  the  prophet  Daniel  could  by  far  exceed  the 
Babilonian  and  Chaldean  Sages  and  their  magic.  The 
same  by  which  Jesus  and  his  followers  did  all  their 
good  work  down  to  the  present  time. 


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Origen,  who  before  he  became  a  Christian,  be- 
longed to  the  Platonic  school,  also  says,  that  all  other 
spirits  are  far  inferior  and  are  subject  to  the  Holy 
Ghost.  That  the  good  spirit  fears  not  the  light, 
while  the  wicked  ones  require  darkness.  The  sensa- 
tions they  excite  make  belief  in  the  reality  and  pres- 
ence of  things  they  show,  though  these  things  be 
absent. 

In  1  John  4,  St.  John  admonishes  not  to  believe 
every  spirit,  for  there  are  many  false  prophets;  try 
them  if  they  are  of  god.  Those  that  confess  that 
Jesus  Christ  was  sent  in  the  flesh  into  this  world 
from  God  to  teach  the  way  of  Love  to  eternal  life, 
are  good.  Every  spirit  that  confesseth  not  that  Jesus 
Christ  has  come  of  God,  is  not  good,  but  is  the  anti- 
Christ  Spiritualist  and  their  mediums  deny  this  prin- 
ciple of  Christianity  as  well  as  the  omnipresence  of 
a  supreme  God.  Also  by  their  fruit  they  can  easily 
be  recognized.  The  aim  and  purpose  of  so  called 
spirit  mediums  are  to  get  money  or  other  material 
advantage  from  their  patrons  and  believers. 

They  will  conspire  among  themselves  and  combine 
from  different  cities  and  places  to  rob  victims  who 
have  money.  Nothing  is  too  low  for  them;  they  will 
stoop  to  any  means  to  get  money  as  long  as  they 
think  that  they  can  circumvent  the  law  of  the  country 
by  trickery  and  evasion.  They  never  consider  the 
plight  in  which  they  leave  the  victim;  never  think 
of  going  good  to  others,  that  is  their  fruit.  On  the 
other  hand,  those  who  are  actuated  by  good,  divine 
spirit,  the  Holy  Ghost;  to  work  with  the  divine  will 


54  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

of  evolution,  to  elevate  and    help    their    fellowmen 
spiritually  and  materially,  is  their  aim  and  object. 


CHAPTER  X. 
Christian    Brotherhood 

Brotherhood  is  a  common  meeting  ground.  It  is 
an  identification  of  ourselves  with  all  human  kind; 
our  oneness  of  aim  and  nature  that  accomplishes 
atonement.  Then  while  still  on  earth,  free  from  hos- 
tile thought,  we  can  look  inward  and  upward  to 
heaven  and  see  that  God's  love  and  goodness  is  su- 
preme in  the  universe. 

Christian  Brotherhood  undoubtedly  also  includes 
community  of  material  interests,  or  the  common 
ownership  of  the  means  of  physical  life.  The  early 
fathers  of  the  Christian  Church  agreed  that,  in  order 
to  live  Christian  lives,  it  was  absolutely  necessary 
for  the  brotherhood  members  to  have  the  means  of 
living  as  community  property.  As  long  as  we  live 
under  competition  and  each  is  trying  to  get  from  the 
other  as  much  as  he  can  in  business  or  otherwise, 
we  are  not  acting  as  brothers  should. 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  55 

In  the  time  of  Jesus,  co-operation  in  clans  was 
practiced  extensively,  both  in  living  and  working. 
Christian  communities  practiced  it  for  more  than 
three  hundred  years,  and  members  were  required  to 
give  up  into  the  community  all  their  earthly  posses- 
sions before  they  were  regarded  as  belonging  to  the 
brotherhood.  Then  the  elders  managed  it  so  that 
none  had  to  suffer  extreme  poverty. 

When  the  Roman  Government  joined  the  Church 
Brotherhood  and  equality  was  abandoned  because  the 
rich,  new  members  and  the  Priesthood  were  not  sat- 
isfied to  be  on  a  level  with  the  others.  Thereby  they 
lost  the  brotherly  love  and  a  little  later  also  the 
spiritual  gifts,  such  as  healing  and  the  clear  under- 
standing of  the  teachings  of  Jesus. 

The  difference  in  the  social  order  of  those  who 
produce  or  are  willing  to  contribute  to  production, 
and  those  who  live  by  collecting  rent,  interest  and 
profit,  is  becoming  greater  as  the  machinery  of  pro- 
duction is  improved,  so  that  the  nation^  who  call 
themselves  Christians  are  departing  more  and  more 
from  the  Brotherhood  which  is  the  most  important 
tenet  of  Christianity. 

Supremacy  and  control  by  the  spiritual  does  not 
suspend  any  function  of  mind  or  body,  but  will  bring 
the  whole  person,  body  and  soul,  to  the  highest  de- 
gree of  organic  perfection  and  vigorous  activity.  It 
will  deepen  and  expand  the  sphere  of  activity  and 
enjoyment  in  all  walks  of  life.  The  exclusive  and 
self-righteous  Pharisees  made  the  charge  against 
Jesus,  that  he  was  glutinous  and  a  winebiber,  a 


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friend  of  publicans  and  sinners,  but  he  said  to  them, 
"Woe  unto  you  who  pay  tight  on  the  smallest  things, 
and  then  eat  up  the  houses  of  the  poor  by  demanding 
many  kinds  of  contributions." 

The  prophet  Jesia  also  says:  "Those  who  say  to 
the  lowly,  stand  by  thyself,  do  not  come  near,  for  I 
am  holier  than  thou,"  are  a  vexation  to  divine  spirit. 
Read  Isaiah,  chapter  65.  It  plaintly  fortells  things 
yet  to  come.  These  prophesies  are  also  repeated  in 
Revelation  of  St.  John  in  several  places.  Read  Rev. 
7-9-17. 

All  that  is  advocated  in  this  chapter  is  in  accord- 
ance and  belongs  to  Christian  Brotherhood. 

When  he  tries  the  hearts  of  men, 
Treasure  of  earth  is  poor  and  vain. 
But  better  than  gold,  than  gold  refined 
Are  faith  and  love  and  truth  divined, 
As  real  wisdom  coming  from  above 
Is  eternal,  never  changing  Love. 

Be  not  conformed  to  this  world,  but  be  ye  trans- 
formed by  the  renewing  of  your  mind,  that  ye  may 
prove  what  is  that  good  and  acceptable  and  perfect 
will  of  God.  If  one  thinks,  speaks  and  acts  pure, 
good  and  loving  thoughts,  happiness  follows  him  like 
a  shadow  that  never  leaves  him.  A  well  directed 
mind  will  do  us  greater  service  than  the  best  friend. 
On  the  restless  sea  of  life  how  often  have  we  longed 
for  some  permanent  shore  on  which  to  rest,  that  ab- 
solute immutable  amid  ceaseless  change,  enduring 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  57 

while  the  phantom  world  passes,  towards  which  sor- 
rowful humanity  ever  yearns,  as  the  deer  panted  for 
the  water-brooks.  That  is  God,  spirit,  love,  beauty 
and  truth. 

We  do  not  want  to  be  so  busy  getting  a  living  that 
we  have  no  time  to  live.  Although  we  live  in  the 
richest  age  in  history,  people  have  less  time  than 
ever  to  live,  but  they  don't  want  to  simplify  their 
wants.  The  men  of  the  world,  instead  of  first  seek- 
ing the  Kingdom  of  Heaven  (true  happiness)  will 
leave  that  for  their  deathbed.  They  discover  too  late 
that  they  have  missed  the  best  thing  in  life  (the 
reality)  and  chased  a  shadow.  He  controls  every- 
thing but  his  own  mind,  and  gets  everything  but  hap- 
piness; he  will  pretend  anything  and  call  it  business. 
Yet  ninety-five  per  cent  of  business  men  fail,  and 
some  of  the  successful,  five  per  cent  have  been  con- 
victed of  mean  dishonesty.  The  moral  defects,  the 
negative  emotions  are  the  real  diseases,  as  wisdom 
and  virtue  are  the  real  health. 

Harmony  is  the  goal  of  life;  heaven  is  but  har- 
mony. Harmony  is  a  state  of  mind  in  perfect  accord 
with  the  soul — that  is  with  God,  who  is  absolute  Love 
and  Truth. 

To  control  the  mental  state,  and  not  to  disturb 
oneself  over  external  conditions  which  can  not  be 
controlled,  is  sound  philosophy  for  application  in 
daily  life.  The  mind  that  has  found  its  center  in 
spiritual  things  will  remain  serene  when  the  trou- 
bled winds  of  the  world  blow  over  it  and  reflects  the 
heavens  of  the  inner  life,  the  infinite  repose  of  the 


58  OCCULT    EXPERIENCES 

soul.  Man  must  be  in  accordance  with  the  laws  of 
his  being  in  order  that  the  divine  current  may  flow 
through  him. 

Longevity 

Anyone  with  a  well  balanced  mind  wishes  to  live 
to  a  ripe  old  age  in  good  health,  therefore  longevity 
also  belongs  to  philosophy  and  what  we  learn  towards 
being  normal  and  happy,  will  also  tend  to  prolong 
life.  State  of  mind,  food  and  drink,  heredity,  tem- 
perance and  self-control  are  all  factors  for  the  dura- 
tion of  our  lives.  The  state  of  mind  is  by  far  the 
most  important.  To  take  events  as  they  come, 
when  they  cannot  be  changed,  with  equanimity  and 
not  to  worry  either  over  the  past  or  about  the  future, 
but  to  use  the  present  to  do  the  best  we  can  and 
know  how,  and  take  the  consequences  easy,  with  re- 
liance in  providence,  that  it  is  for  the  best,  is  wisdom 
that  will  prolong  our  lives  as  well  as  add  to  our  hap- 
piness and  peace.  If  a  placid  disposition,  life  will  be 
long.  If  a  fretful  one,  it  will  be  brief. 

Napoleon  was  a  great  man  but  of  nervous  tem- 
perament. He  fretted  unceasingly  and  died  at  the 
age  of  52,  with  cancer  of  the  stomach,  developed  from 
indigestion,  and  the  indigestion  from  worry. 

Wellington,  a  man  almost  withour  nerves,  who 
never  fretted  or  worried,  lived  to  the  age  of  83. 

Next  of  importance  is  climate  to  live  in.  An  even 
or  equable  climate,  that  is  where  one  does  not  have 


OCCULT    EXPERIENCES  59 

to  suffer  from  either  extreme  cold  nor  heat,  and  in 
an  altitude  near  sea  level,  is  the  best.  In  very  cold 
countries  not  as  many  live  to  an  old  age  as  in  warm 
or  even  hot  countries,  like  Spain  or  South  America. 
In  Roumania  and  Bulgaria,  where  there  is  an  equable 
climate,  similar  to  California,  and  the  people  live  on 
fruit,  vegetables,  milk  and  cheese,  and  use  very  little 
meat  or  alcoholic  liquors,  there  are  a  greater  percent- 
age of  persons  live  to  be  a  hundred  years  old  or  over 
than  in  any  other  part  of  the  earth.  Food  should  be 
plain  and  regular.  Meat  eating  people  do  not  live  as 
long  as  vegetarians  as  a  rule.  Other  things  being 
equal,  those  who  live  mostly  on  fruits,  vegetables, 
milk,  nuts  and  cheese  live  the  longest.  Alcoholic 
liquors  as  a  drink  will  shorten  life,  next  to  other  ex- 
cesses, such  as  sexual  and  immoral  excess,  which 
causes  syphilis  and  other  poisons  to  cut  life  short. 
Alcohol  is  the  most  vicious  foe  of  longevity.  A  per- 
son who  can  control  himself  with  will-power  in  all 
his  habits  and  modes  of  living  can  also  add  to  the 
duration  of  his  life. 


Conclusion 

From  what  has  herein  been  said,  the  conclusion  is 
that  God  is,  or  exists,  as  the  only  self-existant  being. 
He  is  the  lifegiver  who  is  omnipresent  and  dwells 
within  and  v/ithout  us.  Is  omnipotent  and  eternally 
beneficient.  He  is  not  seen,  heard  or  touched,  yet 
is  perceived  by  those  who  desire  perception. 


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Man's  real  self  and  his  life  is  spiritual;  he  is  im- 
mortal and  has  a  future  before  him,  whose  glory  and 
splendor  has  no  limit.  With  the  evolution  of  his 
latent  function  of  spirit  will  dawn  in  the  higher  con- 
sciousness, the  assertion  of  the  divine  ego  in  him, 
God  manifest  in  the  flesh.  No  eye  had  seen  nor  ear 
heard  nor  has  entered  into  the  heart  of  man,  the 
things  God  has  prepared  for  those  that  love  him.  The 
natural  or  sensuous  man  receiveth  not  the  things  of 
the  spirit  of  God,  for  they  are  foolishness  unto  him 
and  he  cannot  know  them.  Only  through  the  soul, 
as  a  divine  spark,  are  they  revealed  to  him  in  spirit- 
ual understanding.  To  that  end  we  are  to  recognize 
and  then  to  realize  the  actual  presence  of  God's  spirit 
in  and  all  about  us,  and  strive  for  unity  therewith. 
That  some  of  the  human  race  have  been  able  to  de- 
velop spiritually,  so  as  to  feel  and  realize  the  unity 
with  the  Father,  demonstrates  the  possibility  of 
others. 

A  divine  law  of  cause  and  effect,  a  law  of  justice 
rules  the  world.  As  man  is  given  choice  to  let  his 
life  and  actions  be  dominated  either  by  spiritual 
good  and  truth,  or  by  material  sensuous,  selfish  and 
fleshly  promptings,  he  is  his  own  dispensor  of  joy  or 
gloom  to  himself.  The  degrees  of  his  life,  his  reward 
or  his  punishment. 

That  mankind  has  inherent  in  himself,  many  spirit- 
ual faculties  and  qualities  going  beyond  or  above  the 
conception  of  material  sense,  which  can  be  greatly 
developed  even  in  this  earthly  life,  and  can  thereby 
show  to  others  the  presence  and  activity  of  the  spirit 


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of  God,  as  being  helpful  and  beneficient  to  mankind. 
That  the  promises  of  Jesus,  when  he  said,  that  those 
who  believe  in  him  and  his  spiritual  teachings  with 
unwavering  faith,  shall  be  able  to  do  all  the  works 
that  he  did  and  even  more,  applies  to  the  present 
time  as  well  as  it  did  to  the  apostles. 

That  Christian  Brotherhood  and  love,  as  the  most 
important  part  of  the  mission  and  teachings  of  Jesus, 
must  include  mutual  services  and  equality  in  the  ma- 
terial means  of  this  earthly  life,  to  develop  and 
demonstrate  the  spiritual  common  origin,  existence 
and  destiny  of  the  race,  and  to  gain  real  happiness 
for  the  individual  united  in  this  Brotherhood. 

That  this  mutual  love  and  service  is  the  best  and 
the  one  means  to  work  in  us  the  unity  with  the  spirit 
of  Christ,  who  is  one  with  the  Father.  That  the  man 
Jesus  is  the  visible  revelation  to  our  perception  of 
the  love  and  good  will  to  man  of  the  universal  spirit 
of  God.  This  is  the  love ! 

If  I  speak  with  the  tongues  of  men  and  of  angels, 
but  have  not  love,  I  am  a  sounding  brass.  If  I  have 
the  gift  of  prophesy,  the  mysteries  and  all  knowl- 
edge; if  I  have  faith  so  as  to  remove  mountains  and 
have  not  love,  I  am  nothing.  If  I  give  all  my  goods 
to  feed  the  poor,  and  if  I  give  my  body  to  be  burned 
and  have  not  love,  it  profiteth  me  nothing. 

Love  suffereth  long  and  is  kind;  love  envieth  not 
and  vaunted  not  itself;  is  not  puffed  up;  doeth  not 
behave  unseemly;  seeketh  not  its  own;  is  not  pro- 


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voked;  taketh  not  account  of  evil;  rejoiceth  not  in 
unrighteousness,  but  rejoiceth  with  the  truth,  bear- 
ing all  things.  Love  never  faileth,  even  if  everything 
be  done  away  with,  love  shall  remain. 


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